WHERE ARE THE MONORAILS?

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DICK FALKENBURY

In 1997, Dick Falkenbury authored an initiative to 'build, operate and
maintain' a forty mile monorail system hat ould span the city of Seattle in
a huge "X". With a handful of volunteers and no support, the initiative
gathered 18,500 signatures while spending only $2,000--and it won the first
election. He served as a volunteer as a member of the Board of Directors
without missing a single meeting for six years. In these six years, there
were two more successful elections for the monorail in Seattle, and a
fourth election approved a tax on vehicles to pay for the project.
Inexplicably, the staff padded the contract to the point where 14 miles of
monorail, with interest, would cost $11 billion and the Seattle voters
rejected the project. Had it come to fruition, it would have been the only
transportation system drafted, planned and implemented by the citizens of a
city.

Mr. Falkenbury, 53, lives in Seattle as he has for the majority of his
life. At the beginning in 1997, he was a cab driver; he now drives a bus
for a small tour company showing people the city that he loves.

BRIAN C. BROOKS

Brian C. Brooks became an employee of the Los Angeles Flood Control
District on February 8th, 1966. Since that time, his work has included all
parts of Los Angeles County, beginning work on the Seawater Intrusion
Barrier projects, promoted into positions in Operation and Maintenance and
Construction Divisions, and gaining a strong understanding of the existing
flood control facilities.

He has successfully testified as an expert witness for the County in
Eminent Domain proceedings, had the honor of being elected to the Board of
Chapter One of the International Right of Way Association and was a Past
President of that Board. Mr. Brooks also had the honor of having been
elected by the General Employees of Los Angeles County to the Board of
Investments and (separately) to the Board of Retirement of the Los Angeles
County Employees Retirement Association.

Mr. Brooks was later promoted into Mapping and Property Management and
presently serves as a Valuation Engineer II, as well as the elected
President of the California Association of Professional Employees. Acting
in these positions has given Mr. Brooks a familiarity with political
solutions and large-scale projects.